| 11963 | January 30 | Event | 1959 – MS Hans Hedtoft, said to be the safest ship afloat and "unsinkable" like the RMS Titanic, strikes an iceberg on her maiden voyage and sinks, killing all 95 aboard. |
| 11964 | January 30 | Event | 1960 – The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties. |
| 11965 | January 30 | Event | 1964 – Ranger program: Ranger 6 is launched. |
| 11966 | January 30 | Event | 1964 – In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam. |
| 11967 | January 30 | Event | 1965 – Some one million people attend former Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill's funeral, the biggest in the United Kingdom up to that point. |
| 11968 | January 30 | Event | 1968 – Vietnam War: Tet Offensive launch by forces of the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army against South Vietnam, the United States, and their allies. |
| 11969 | January 30 | Event | 1969 – The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records in London. The impromptu concert is broken up by the police. |
| 11970 | January 30 | Event | 1971 – Carole King's Tapestry album is released to become the longest charting album by a female solo artist and sell 24 million copies worldwide. |
| 11941 | January 30 | Event | 1826 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales, is opened. |
| 11942 | January 30 | Event | 1835 – In the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States, Richard Lawrence attempts to shoot president Andrew Jackson, but fails and is subdued by a crowd, including several congressmen as well as Jackson himself. |
| 11943 | January 30 | Event | 1841 – A fire destroys two-thirds of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. |
| 11944 | January 30 | Event | 1847 – Yerba Buena, California is renamed San Francisco. |
| 11945 | January 30 | Event | 1858 – The first Hallé concert is given in Manchester, England, marking the official founding of The Hallé orchestra as a full-time, professional orchestra. |
| 11946 | January 30 | Event | 1862 – The first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor is launched. |
| 11947 | January 30 | Event | 1889 – Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling. |
| 11948 | January 30 | Event | 1902 – The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London. |
| 11949 | January 30 | Event | 1908 – Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month. |
| 11950 | January 30 | Event | 1911 – The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba. |
| 11951 | January 30 | Event | 1911 – The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy. |
| 11952 | January 30 | Event | 1913 – The British House of Lords rejects the Irish Home Rule Bill. |
| 11953 | January 30 | Event | 1925 – The Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. |
| 11954 | January 30 | Event | 1933 – Adolf Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. |
| 11955 | January 30 | Event | 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. |
| 11956 | January 30 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Second day of the Battle of Rennell Island. The USS Chicago is sunk and a U.S. destroyer is heavily damaged by Japanese torpedoes. |
| 11957 | January 30 | Event | 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy. |
| 11958 | January 30 | Event | 1944 – World War II: American troops land on Majuro, Marshall Islands. |
| 11959 | January 30 | Event | 1945 – World War II: The Wilhelm Gustloff, overfilled with German refugees, sinks in the Baltic Sea after being torpedoed by a Soviet submarine, killing approximately 9,500 people in what is the deadliest known maritime disaster. |
| 11960 | January 30 | Event | 1945 – World War II: Raid at Cabanatuan: One hundred twenty-six American Rangers and Filipino resistance fighters liberate over 500 Allied prisoners from the Japanese-controlled Cabanatuan POW camp. |
| 11961 | January 30 | Event | 1948 – Mahatma Gandhi known for his non-violent freedom struggle, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. |
| 11962 | January 30 | Event | 1956 – African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott. |